Watching my first episode of Bob’s Burgers through closed captioning and it is transparently a time-shifted riff on Greek diners and 20th century “white ethnic” immigrant assimilation through marginal small business ownership

Which is exactly what we need right now

Other promising trends in pop culture race relations: “Dragonball Z fandom as nonwhite identity”/“second-tier superhero fandom as black identity”, for being so axial to culture war battle lines and promising for the next generation